Section: News & Summaries

The airport traffic control tower fell in the Donetsk Airport, spokesman for anti-terrorist operation (ATO) Leonid Matiukhin confirmed this information to BBC Ukraine. Earlier, airlive.net website published a photograph from security cameras in Donetsk, at which the tower is not seen. According to the ATO spokesman, the tower has fallen down...

People’s Front faction MP Serhiy Pashynsky said that the faction was doing everything possible so that MPs would be unable to avoid mobilization into the Ukrainain army. He said this today from the rostrum of Vekhovna Rada, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We will initiate amendments into the law on mobilization that all...

Anti-Corruption Bureau investigators’ salaries will start from UAH 20 thousand. The bonuses for uncovering corruption schemes will also be paid to them, according to the chairman of the Ukraine’s Parliament committee on the fight against corruption from Samopomoch party Yehor Sobolev, reports UNN. “It is proposed that the Anti-Corruption...

The Radical Party of Ukraine has offered MPs to consider the draft law on the abolition of parliamentary immunity this plenary week. Such a suggestion was announced by the party’s leader Oleh Liashko from the parliament’s rostrum, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “If we want to abolish parliamentary immunity this year, we...

Leader of the Opposition bloc faction Yuriy Boiko proposes to establish a separate committee on Donbas in the Ukraine’s Parliament. He said this today from the rostrum of Vekhovna Rada, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “Our party initiates the establishment of a separate committee on Donbas, which will draft the laws to return the...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is to consider the appeal to the PACE and the world leaders regarding the release of Nadiya Savchenko, as well as the bill on protection of television and radio information space at the plenary session on Tuesday, the parliament’s meeting agenda reads, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. MPs are to consider...

Our Ukrainian forces positions were shelled 84 times in the last 24 hours as gunmen’s armed groups had been escalating the number and intensity of their attacks on our troops and the residential areas of Donbas. Eleven residential areas and Ukrainian military positions near those villages were hit by the terrorists, anti-terrorist operation press...

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) is going to amount the treatment of Maidan detained protesters to torture. The corresponding statement has been published in the CPT’s report, Kommersant reports. “There are registered instances of ill-treatment...

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) noted a marked increase in reported ceasefire violations in its report on Monday, the Radio Liberty reported. “According to the OSCE, on last Friday and Saturday there was increase in ceasefire violations reported, a total of 72 ceasefire violations on Friday and a total of 111...

Ukraine is ready to provide Donbas with the status of a special economic zone with its own regime of relations with the EU and Russia. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said this in an interview with France 24 television channel. “Donbas should hold local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian law to achieve the special economic...